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As a permanent member of the Security Council, France calls on the UN Secretariat to provide a regularized background briefing to the Council for greater situational awareness, in line with Article 34 of the Charter. France also commits to encourage the Secretary-General to use his perogative under Article 99 of the Charter to brief the Security Council proactively on emerging issues.

France commits to actively use early warning findings to identify, address and defuse critical risks before they deteriorate into intractable conflicts by using preventive diplomacy tools such as good offices, Peace and Development Advisors, groups of contact and mediation.

France commits to strengthen and if necessary, develop comprehensive, shared frameworks for conflict and risk analysis including early warning mechanisms at the local, national, regional and international level.

France commits to support the UN's conflict prevention capacities, in particular conflict analysis and the good offices function and will advocate for the use of regular budget funds for conflict prevention.

France pledges to increase early engagement with countries at risk of conflict, their regional partners and relevant regional/sub regional organizations, using tools such as timely visiting missions,interactive dialogues, and the role of the Presidency.

France requests that the Secretary-General develop a comprehensive plan to strengthen conflict prevention at the United Nations based on lessons learnt and recommendations emanating from the Advisory Group of Experts on the 2015 Review of the United Nations Peacebuilding Architecture, the Report of the High-level Independent Panel on Peace Operations and the Global Study on the implementation of resolution 1325, in time for the World Prevention Forum by 2020.

France will encourage the United Nations in convening a World Prevention Forum by 2020 to identify how Member States, the UN Secretariat, the Security Council and regional organizations can work more effectively together on conflict prevention and resolution.

France commits to take measures to comprehensively reduce risk, vulnerability and fragility, in particular to update its fragility-related national strategy.

France will support cooperation between countries on how to build resilience after crisis and manage complex aid relationships in accordance with the principles of the New Deal for engagement in fragile states.

France commits to actively focus on addressing long standing human rights concerns and grievances, including patterns of discrimination and marginalization recognizing this as a key structural cause of conflict and instability within society.

France commits to establish Contact Groups or Groups of Friends, when possible and feasible, at the onset of a crisis and use their political leverage for continued support through to post-conflict reconstruction. France commits to provide political support by organizing high-level dialogue, conferences and sustained engagement with a view to mobilizing support to prevent or resolve a crisis. In this regard, France will inter alia support the organization of a high-level meeting for post-conflict recovery in Central African Republic (by the end of 2016).

France commits to strengthening the active participation of women and youth in peacebuilding by linking the implementation of the New Deal to the implementation of UN Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) and 1612 (2005).

France commits to take measures to comprehensively reduce risk, vulnerability and fragility, in particular to update its fragility-related national strategy.

France will continue to invest in conflict analysis, prevention and resolution capacities, including through the training of the staff working on such issues.

France will promote gender and gender based violence risk analysis including the use of community and women informed local early warning mechanisms to identify and defuse conflicts early.

France will continue to strengthen dialogue with civil society, including humanitarian and human rights organizations, with components of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, including the International Committee of the Red Cross and the French Red Cross, and with UN agencies and programmes, in order to reach collective conflict prevention and resolution strategies based on shared conflict analysis.

France will encourage civil society, regional organizations and sub-regional organizations to work on conflict analysis, prevention and resolution, through the organization of regular meetings and conferences, and the strengthening of its communication on humanitarian and human rights issues.

In line with its second national plan (2015-2018) to implement UN Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on women, peace and security, France commits to ensuring meaningful participation of women and adolescent girls in all formal and informal decision-making processes from refugee camp committees to peace processes.

In light of the publication in 2015 of the Ramos-Horta and Rosenthal reports, the fifteen-year anniversary of the "women, peace and security" agenda and the ten-year anniversary of the first resolutions on the protection of children in armed conflict (2017), as a permanent Member of the Security Council, France is engaged to identify ways to improve and strengthen UN action on the contribution of peacekeeping operations to the protection of civilians.

France commits to collect and exchange good practices and lessons learned in avoiding and minimizing impacts on civilians and civilian objects, especially in the conduct of hostilities, and to develop and promote practical proposals for protecting civilians, including by strengthening cooperation and coordination between humanitarian actors and armed forces, while fully respecting the principles of action of humanitarian actors, namely humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence.

France commits to support programs aimed at clearing explosive remnants of war (ERW) including by providing training for relevant countries and organizations and commits to support public information campaigns, education and training, and liaison with communities aimed at reducing the risk of injury from explosive remnants of war (ERW) including by providing training for relevant countries and organizations.

France will host an international conference in 2017, in order to promote the protection of children in armed conflict, a decade after the adoption of the Principles and Guidelines on Children Associated with Armed Forces or Armed Groups ("the Paris Principles").

In the framework of the 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, France commits to exchange on good practices to protect cultural properties in the event of armed conflicts.France also pledges to continue to ensure the dissemination of IHL related to the protection of cultural properties in armed conflict to its military personnel.

As a permanent member of the Security Council, France commits to use leverage and influence in order to facilitate and ensure safe humanitarian access to all people in need in armed conflict.

France also commits to continue to offer international humanitarian law and human rights law training for foreign armed forces

France also commits to contribute to the effective implementation of Security Council resolution 2175 (29 August 2014) on protection of humanitarian personnel.

France commits to continue to actively promote the principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence in humanitarian action, including by implementing its partnership both with the International Committee of the Red Cross (Convention of 22th of October 2014) and the French Red Cross (Convention of 9th of September 2014).

France has promoted and commits to contribute actively to the effective implementation of Security Council resolution 2286 (3 May 2016) aimed at strengthening the protection of health care in armed conflict. France also pledges to continue to strengthen and consolidate military rules of engagement and operational practice to include measures to protect the delivery of humanitarian assistance, in particular health care.

France is committed to train armed forces to respect the obligation to allow and facilitate rapid, safe and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief and pledge to support impartial humanitarian actors' efforts to engage in dialogue with, and operate in areas controlled by, non-state armed groups. France is committed to enhance close cooperation between its armed forces and humanitarian actors in order to facilitate and ensure humanitarian access to all people in need.

France re-commits to the proper and coherent use, and the effective coordination of foreign military assets in humanitarian action, taking into account the necessary respect of the humanitarian principles.

In accordance with its national legislation, France will continue to ensure the obligation to respect and protect humanitarian and health care workers and facilities against attack and to train the military on the applicable legal framework for the protection of health care, as well as ethical duties of health care personnel.

France is committed to support efforts to track, collect data, and report on trends of violations of international humanitarian law.

France will promote gender and gender based violence risk analysis including the use of community and women informed local early warning mechanisms to identify and defuse conflicts early.

As party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court since its establishment, France promotes universal adherence to it and commits to continue to fully cooperate with the International Criminal Court.

At national level, France commits to pursue the implementation of its strategy on the protection of civilians and commits to designate focal points in relevant government branches responsible for promoting respect for international humanitarian law and human rights law through diplomatic, economic and military relations.

France also commits to developing and implementing strategies for the involvement of men and boys as part of the solution to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in crisis. France has sponsored a resolution at UNESCO on school-related gender-based violence and leads cooperation programmes in this field with three West African countries.

France also commits to ensuring that its national legislation on sexual and gender-based crimes is in line with international standards and to implement General Recommendation 30 of the CEDAW Committee on Women in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations.

France commits to continue its efforts to sue alleged foreign authors of crimes perpetrated abroad on foreign victims that usually reside in France, through its specialized section of judges, prosecutors and investigators on torture, genocide, crime against humanity and war crime.

France commits to continue to improve and strengthen implementation of national legislation outlawing all forms of sexual and gender-based violence, exploitation or abuse.

France commits to promoting the Call to Action and its Roadmap.

France has proposed in 2013 the suspension of the veto in case of mass atrocities through an informal, voluntary and collective agreement by the five permanent members of the Security Council. In order to set an example and draw the path for the future, France has committed itself unilaterally not to use the veto against a credible draft UN Security Council resolution aimed at ending or preventing mass atrocities (Speech by the French President before the United Nations General Assembly, 28 September 2015).

France is prohibiting members of its armed forces who have not attained the age of 18 years from taking a direct part in hostilities, and calls upon other countries to do so.

France reaffirms its commitments to end sexual violence in conflicts, including those made in its second national action plan (2015-2018) to implement UN Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on women, peace and security.

As a party to the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, the Arms Trade Treaty, the Convention on Cluster Munitions and the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, France commits to continue to promote universal adherence to them.

France commits to continue to engage constructively in an intergovernmental process, based on the principle of consensus after the adoption of Resolution 2 of the 32nd Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and in line with the guiding principles enumerated in operative paragraph 1 of the Resolution to find agreement on features and functions of a potential forum of States and to find ways to enhance the implementation of IHL using the potential of the International Conference in order to submit the outcome of this intergovernmental process to the 33rd International Conference.

France commits to examine the possibility of its accession to the Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the event of armed conflicts (The Hague, 26 March 1999).

France commits to promote the universal ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance and to call upon all State Parties to the Convention to declare that they recognize the competence of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances to receive and consider communications. France commits to support the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, which work is complementary of the action of the Committee on enforced disappearances.

France commits to promoting the universal ratification of the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court as well as the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Optional Protocol.

In accordance with Resolution 1 of the 32nd Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, France is actively committed in the pursuit of further in-depth work, in accordance with this Resolution, with the goal of producing one or more concrete and implementable outcomes in any relevant or appropriate form of a non-legally binding nature with the aim of strengthening protection and providing legal safeguards including against unlawful detention for all persons deprived of their liberty in relation to armed conflict, in particular in relation to non-international armed conflict.

Recognizing the importance of financing long-term refugee and internally displaced persons caseloads in protracted crises and of countries hosting these refugees as a global public good, France commits to using its position on the Boards of the International Financial Institutions, and as a contributor to their concessional funds, to ensure that they deliver a relevant, coherent and cost effective response to the challenge of the consequences of fragility, disasters, and crises.

France commits to address the protection needs of people displaced across borders in the context of disasters and climate change, in particular through the promotion and implementation of the Protection Agenda of the Nansen Initiative at relevant levels, and through its active engagement within the new Platform on Disaster Displacement.

France commits to strengthen measures to prevent and avoid disaster-induced displacement by integrating this risk into climate change adaptation and disaster risk management strategies.

France will also continue to facilitate access to civil registration and documentation for refugees, including birth registration, identity cards and other personal documentation.

France will continue its assistance programmes in favor of countries with large numbers of displaced population and initial countries of reception.

France will continue to ensure the full and effective implementation of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol and actively promote their universal ratification.

France will continue to expand the legal, social and economic opportunities for refugees to access to education, health care, livelihoods and labor markets, without discrimination.

France will continue to promote refugees' legal rights to a secure stay in host countries, including through adequate, safe and dignified reception conditions and registration.

France will continue to provide free access to education to refugee children in France.

France will ensure special attention is given to girls and women in hosting zones, so that their safety is guaranteed.

France will help countries to address the causes of internal displacement, and to support the voluntary return home in safety and dignity, local integration or settlement elsewhere if needed.

France will help integrate refugees and IDPs into national development plans, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

France will promote and continue to implement its commitment towards legal pathways for admission of refugees, including resettlement and humanitarian admission, family reunification, and educational opportunities.

France, through its assistance programs, will also create incentives for countries with large IDP populations, to prevent potential tensions between communities and ensure IDPs’ full enjoyment of their rights, in accordance with the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.

To do so, France will prioritize solutions that improve the self-reliance and resilience of IDPs and host communities.

France will develop partnerships to encourage innovative approaches to support the self-reliance of refugees and IDPs.

France will promote gender and gender based violence risk analysis including the use of community and women informed local early warning mechanisms to identify and defuse conflicts early.

France also commits to continuing, and tailoring to crisis settings, its support to the implementation of the targets for the 2030 Agenda on maternal, newborn and adolescent health to ensure safe delivery, emergency obstetric, ante-natal and post-natal services in crisis settings, improved access to information, voluntary family planning, and basic items for safe delivery and sanitary supplies, necessary medical and psychological services for SGBV survivors as well as improved capacity of health systems and workers with immediate effect.

France also commits to ensuring increased access for women to assistance programmes, sustainable and dignified livelihoods, vocational and skills training opportunities throughout the humanitarian programme cycle by 2020.

France also commits to ensuring that its national legislation on sexual and gender-based crimes is in line with international standards and to implement General Recommendation 30 of the CEDAW Committee on Women in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations.

France commits to improve gender and equality mainstreaming in all humanitarian interventions, in compliance with its international and national commitments, including its second national action plan on Women, Peace and Security (2015-2018) and its Gender and Development Strategy (2013-2017).

France commits to improve gender and equality mainstreaming in all humanitarian interventions, including disaster risk reduction and management programs, in compliance with its international and national commitments, including the French Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (2015-2018) and the Gender and Development Strategy (2013-2017).

France commits to joining the Secretary General's Every Woman Every Child Everywhere (EWECE) initiative and corresponding roadmap, by 2017, to work to end all preventable deaths of women and adolescent girls in crisis settings.

France commits to promoting the universal ratification of the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court as well as the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Optional Protocol.

France commits to strengthening the active participation of women and youth in peacebuilding by linking the implementation of the New Deal to the implementation of UN Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) and 1612 (2005).

France commits to support partnership with local and national women-led groups and other gender-sensitive humanitarian actors to provide them with capacity building and mentoring to increase their ability to deliver in humanitarian settings, in a way that both meets the needs of women and girls as well as meaningfully involves them in program design, delivery and monitoring.

France commits to the participation of civil society, including local women's groups, and the private sector in the design, implementation and monitoring of disaster risk management policies and programs.

France reaffirms its commitments to end sexual violence in conflicts, including those made in its second national action plan (2015-2018) to implement UN Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on women, peace and security.

France will ensure special attention is given to girls and women in hosting zones, so that their safety is guaranteed.

In line with its second national plan (2015-2018) to implement UN Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on women, peace and security, France commits to ensuring meaningful participation of women and adolescent girls in all formal and informal decision-making processes from refugee camp committees to peace processes.

To achieve these goals, France set up the French Muskoka Fund for maternal, newborn and adolescent health in 2011 for a five-year period. The Fund has recently been extended with a focus on young people access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, and an annual budget of EUR 10 million in 2016. It is implemented by four UN agencies.

France will continue to provide free access to education to refugee children in France.

France commits to strengthening the active participation of women and youth in peacebuilding by linking the implementation of the New Deal to the implementation of UN Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) and 1612 (2005).

France commits to develop and establish a "local" marker for its humanitarian programs, as a guideline, in order to assess if a project is well enough designed to ensure that it reinforces and does not replace national and local capacity and to foster partnerships between international and national and local actors.

France commits to develop and make greater use of financing tools that support front line response.

France commits to develop coverage of shock responsive social protection systems, introduce safety nets in fragile contexts, and move chronically affected populations onto these programs.

France commits to increase direct humanitarian financing to national and local institutions, and to increase its financing for development in support to national and local institutions, including in fragile and conflict affected countries.

France commits to increase investment in building community resilience as a core foundation of national risk management efforts, the key elements of which could include: raising awareness of critical risks and how all community members may be affected; collaboration between local government, businesses and neighborhoods in tackling their most important risks; ensuring women'€s participation; reinforcing local infrastructure; and improving communities'€™ capacity to provide a coordinated first response.

France commits to invest in the capacity of frontline responders, particularly to commit to investing in the ability of front-line responding actors to play a leading role in crisis anticipation, response and recovery by: 1) creating incentives for international actors to work in strategic partnerships with local and national civil society organizations that build the long-term organizational and responsive capacity; 2) providing front-line responders with fair and realistic levels of overhead costs in funding awards; 3) supporting the development of national and regional networks of front-line responders and other related capacity-strengthening initiatives including national and regional research and training centers.

France commits to promote a systematic transition from a leading delivery role to an advisory/enabling role to national and local actors.

France commits to promote principled partnerships between local, national and international actors and humanitarian donors, especially to leverage the value of local and national organizations in humanitarian response, and to provide local and national organizations with robust organizational support and capacity-building.

France commits to reinforce national and local leadership in natural disaster preparedness and response by tailoring their response to the specific context, using national mechanisms as the default coordination arrangements and ensuring assistance is targeted at filling gaps.

France commits to stimulate locally devised strategies and services, including livelihood generation and employment opportunities, to reduce dependency and vulnerability before, during and after shocks.

France commits to strengthening national and local institutional capacity in countries suffering from humanitarian crisis, through the identification of a capacity strengthening mechanism to be launched by 2017.

France commits to support collective community engagement and accountability as a means to connect community feedback to strategic decision-making processes.

France commits to support national and local resilience efforts, and provide vulnerable people with a mix of short term assistance to address immediate needs and longer-term assistance to improve self-reliance.

France commits to support national capacity for risk analysis in risk-prone countries, by way of a whole-of-government approach.

France commits to work with governments of at-risk and crisis-affected states to play a leading role initiating, organizing, coordinating and implementing crisis-response on their territory, as stated by Art. 4 of UN General Assembly Resolution 14/182.

France commits to work with national counterparts, wherever possible, to expand access to sustainable social protection systems.

France confirms its endorsement of the 10 common principles for multi-purpose cash-based assistance, as adopted by the European Council on 22 June 2015, and commits to translate them into operational terms, in appropriate contexts.

France confirms its endorsement of the 10 common principles for multi-purpose cash-based assistance, as adopted by the European Council on 22 June 2015, and commits to translate them into operational terms, in appropriate contexts.

France commits to address the protection needs of people displaced across borders in the context of disasters and climate change, in particular through the promotion and implementation of the Protection Agenda of the Nansen Initiative at relevant levels, and through its active engagement within the new Platform on Disaster Displacement.

France commits to develop and make greater use of financing tools that support front line response.

France commits to develop partnerships to strengthen national and local emergency management systems for natural disasters : a) in the framework of the European Civil Protection Mechanism (EUCPM) and the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI), France is committed to help neighbouring countries to enhance their emergency management system for natural disasters, especially through the Programme on Prevention, Preparedness and Response to man-made and natural Disasters (PPRD) East and South, which both invest in national resilience, preparedness and response to man-made and natural disasters; and b) in the framework of the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG), France is committed to develop and reinforce domestic rules, procedures and institutional arrangements for facilitating and regulating international disaster assistance. In particular, France is dedicated to contributing to establish minimum international standards for search and rescue interventions.

France commits to encourage the private sector to be part of natural disaster response and recovery planning, and to promote business continuity.

France commits to improve gender and equality mainstreaming in all humanitarian interventions, including disaster risk reduction and management programs, in compliance with its international and national commitments, including the French Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (2015-2018) and the Gender and Development Strategy (2013-2017).

France commits to increase investment in building community resilience as a core foundation of national risk management efforts, the key elements of which could include: raising awareness of critical risks and how all community members may be affected; collaboration between local government, businesses and neighborhoods in tackling their most important risks; ensuring women'€s participation; reinforcing local infrastructure; and improving communities'€™ capacity to provide a coordinated first response.

France commits to reinforce national and local leadership in natural disaster preparedness and response by tailoring their response to the specific context, using national mechanisms as the default coordination arrangements and ensuring assistance is targeted at filling gaps.

France commits to strengthen disaster preparedness and response through partnership and cooperation amongst practitioners, and to use the Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW) as a platform to develop collaboratively solutions to the recurring challenges faced in local, national, regional and global preparedness and response, including those raised at the World Humanitarian Summit.

France commits to strengthen measures to prevent and avoid disaster-induced displacement by integrating this risk into climate change adaptation and disaster risk management strategies.

France commits to support national capacity for risk analysis in risk-prone countries, by way of a whole-of-government approach.

France commits to take a more systematic and integrated approach to risk management through measures that better integrate planning in climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, response and recovery, and through closer collaboration between different sectors and partners, so that investments in each are complementary, and based on a common analysis of risk and costs.

France commits to the participation of civil society, including local women's groups, and the private sector in the design, implementation and monitoring of disaster risk management policies and programs.

France commits to trigger international response to natural disasters when national capacities are overwhelmed.

France commits, within the European framework, to assess the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to dominant risks and strengthen it to allow rapid and effective response and recovery, and the opportunity to "build back better".

France re-commits to, in line with the principles and concepts of the Oslo Guidelines, endorse common humanitarian civil-military standards for deploying, receiving, integrating and coordinating foreign military assets in natural disasters.

France will commit to achieve the Sendai Framework target to increase people's access to multi-hazard Early Warning Systems, and disaster risk information and assessments by 2030. To do so, France will continue to support the Climate Risk Early Warning Systems (CREWS) initiative, which aims to cover all Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States with efficient Early Warning Systems by 2020, and will actively promote this initiative in order to reach the objective of US$ 100 million in funding.

France commits to actively explore ways to increase financing options (e.g. short-term and long-term; grants, loans, innovative financing and other financing tools) by mobilizing all sources of financing, to ensure humanitarian needs are met, and reduce people's risk and vulnerability, aimed at supporting the achievement of collective outcomes over multiple years.

France commits to financing collective outcomes, based on multi-year plans and to the actor/s that have demonstrated comparative advantage.

France commits to investing in capacity building and deployment mechanisms, particularly in the Global South, so that requesting countries can more effectively receive pre-verified and quality assured capacities.

France commits to support and further develop new ways of working, based on a coordinated analysis of vulnerability as well as other tools and processes such as multi-year strategic planning that enable humanitarian-development collaboration to meet humanitarian needs, and reduce people's risk and vulnerability and increase resilience at national levels.

France commits to support and further develop synergies between humanitarian and development actors based on demonstrated comparative advantage relevant to each context.

France commits to support the follow-up and review processes of the sustainable development goals' implementation that could demonstrate collective contributions to the 2030 Agenda. France will present its first National Voluntary Review at the high level political forum in July 2016.

France commits to support the UN Resident Coordinator/Humanitarian Coordinator's leadership on the coordination of international engagement and to mobilize resources to support the delivery of collective outcomes.

France commits to undertake or support local capacity mapping in countries facing recurrent and protracted crises to inform capacity development and gap-filling by international and regional partners.

France commits, within the European framework, to assess the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to dominant risks and strengthen it to allow rapid and effective response and recovery, and the opportunity to "build back better".

France commits to contribute to a reconfiguration of the international humanitarian financing system to allow critical front-line responder to access adequate, timely and quality funding on a fair basis by: 1) empowering national NGOs to play a central role in programming and delivering principled and coordinated humanitarian assistance; 2) reducing barriers to accessing funding by simplifying and harmonizing partner capacity assessments and application and reporting requirements; 3) ensuring front-line responders are included in collective coordination platforms and response processes and have a seat at the table in collective response processes, thereby promoting stronger partnerships and increased direct access of local and national front-line responding NGOs to humanitarian funding.

France commits to increase direct humanitarian financing to national and local institutions, and to increase its financing for development in support to national and local institutions, including in fragile and conflict affected countries.

France commits to invest in the capacity of frontline responders, particularly to commit to investing in the ability of front-line responding actors to play a leading role in crisis anticipation, response and recovery by: 1) creating incentives for international actors to work in strategic partnerships with local and national civil society organizations that build the long-term organizational and responsive capacity; 2) providing front-line responders with fair and realistic levels of overhead costs in funding awards; 3) supporting the development of national and regional networks of front-line responders and other related capacity-strengthening initiatives including national and regional research and training centers.

France commits to investing in capacity building and deployment mechanisms, particularly in the Global South, so that requesting countries can more effectively receive pre-verified and quality assured capacities.

France commits to lobby for the increase of the overall portion of humanitarian appeal funding channeled through country or region-based pooled funds to national and local actors and, more generally, to support financial instruments dedicated to national and local actors.

France commits to promote principled partnerships between local, national and international actors and humanitarian donors, especially to leverage the value of local and national organizations in humanitarian response, and to provide local and national organizations with robust organizational support and capacity-building.

France commits to support the development of a pre-qualification mechanism to identify national and local actors that meet the criteria to enter into a partnership, including direct financing, with aid donors.

France commits to lobby for the increase of the overall portion of humanitarian appeal funding channeled through country or region-based pooled funds to national and local actors and, more generally, to support financial instruments dedicated to national and local actors.

France commits to increasing funding for climate adaptation and reaching EUR 1 billion per year in 2020.

France commits to increasing funding for disaster risk reduction and preparedness activities and to do this in a coherent way from multiple sources, including enhanced domestic resource mobilization and private sector investment, and higher proportions of development and climate adaptation finance, such as the Green Climate Fund.

In line with the core responsibility to ensure that No One is Left Behind, France commits to focus scarce ODA resources in the most fragile states by: 1) ensuring that development investments are risk informed and contribute to building resilience where relevant, enabling low and lower middle income countries to better manage and finance their own disaster risk; 2) increasing the opportunities for risk sharing among donors.

In line with the Secretary-General's Climate Resilience Initiative: Anticipate, Absorb and Reshape, France commits to: 1) scaling up insurance coverage for countries against natural disasters; 2) scaling up appropriate and cost effective risk pooling and risk transfer tools.

Recognizing that there is a range of tools that can be used to finance reduction of risks and anticipatory approaches to responding to crises France commits to: 1) expanding the use of tools and approaches that strengthen systemic shifts toward better risk management and financial planning and preparation, such as shock-responsive social protection mechanisms; 2) putting in place adequate emergency reserve funds and funds for risk-reduction activities and investments to reduce the drivers of fragility and conflict, in particular to continue financing projects to tackle the root causes of crises; 3) creating incentives for more coherent approaches built on a common understanding of the need to manage risk, both as a moral imperative and as an expedient investment to protect development investments and assure sustainable development outcomes.

Recognizing the importance of financing long-term refugee and internally displaced persons caseloads in protracted crises and of countries hosting these refugees as a global public good, France commits to using its position on the Boards of the International Financial Institutions, and as a contributor to their concessional funds, to ensure that they deliver a relevant, coherent and cost effective response to the challenge of the consequences of fragility, disasters, and crises.

France commits to support the UN's conflict prevention capacities, in particular conflict analysis and the good offices function and will advocate for the use of regular budget funds for conflict prevention.

France commits to actively explore ways to increase financing options (e.g. short-term and long-term; grants, loans, innovative financing and other financing tools) by mobilizing all sources of financing, to ensure humanitarian needs are met, and reduce people's risk and vulnerability, aimed at supporting the achievement of collective outcomes over multiple years.

France commits to financing collective outcomes, based on multi-year plans and to the actor/s that have demonstrated comparative advantage.

France commits to support national and local resilience efforts, and provide vulnerable people with a mix of short term assistance to address immediate needs and longer-term assistance to improve self-reliance.

Recognizing that, within a country context, humanitarian, development, peacebuilding, stabilization and climate finance should be more coherent France commits to: 1) increasing support to multi-year multi-stakeholder financing, including effective funding instruments for protracted crisis countries, which combine national actors, UN, IFIs, and MDBs, with a clear division of responsibilities based on comparative advantage to deliver on collective outcomes; 2) ensuring that organizational structures and internal processes foster coherence between humanitarian, development, peacebuilding, stabilization and climate finance; 3) strengthening the mechanisms for coordination at country level and globally to maximize policy coherence; 4) committing to financing collective outcomes, based on multi-year plans and to the actor/s that have demonstrated comparative advantage; 5) using positions on the boards of international organizations, agencies and financial institutions to ensure a comprehensive approach to the management of man-made and natural hazards.

France commits to agreeing to reporting requirements that are simplified, proportionate, and coherent (harmonized to best practice).

To achieve these goals, France set up the French Muskoka Fund for maternal, newborn and adolescent health in 2011 for a five-year period. The Fund has recently been extended with a focus on young people access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, and an annual budget of EUR 10 million in 2016. It is implemented by four UN agencies.